Where does redhat-config-printer keep its printer data?

Chris Kloiber ckloiber at redhat.com
Tue Nov 25 04:42:12 UTC 2003


On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 21:57, Christians, Stefan Mr. wrote:
> When I add printers from the command line with lpadmin, the result is a
> ppd file in /etc/cups/ppd as well as an entry in
> /etc/cups/printers.conf.
> 
> The gnome-print-manager displays the new printer, on the local as well
> as on remote machines, which shows that CUPS is working beautifully.
> 
> However, when I run redhat-config-printer on the local machine, it does
> not list the new printer. (redhat-config-printer on remote machines
> lists the new printer correctly under browsed queues).
> 
> This makes me suspect that redhat-config-printer stores configuration
> information separately from cups. Does anybody know where that is?

/etc/alchemist/namespace/printconf/local.adl

(which is a gzip'd xml file, IIRC.)

-- 
Chris Kloiber
Red Hat, Inc.





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